From the course: Creating a Short Film: 01 Producing
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Producing shorts vs. features
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 01 Producing
Producing shorts vs. features
- The point of all these training courses is to obviously help you create a short film. But most short films are created with the intent to move on to creating feature films. So, in this chapter, I thought we'd take just a very perfunctory glance at what it's like to produce a feature film. For most jobs on a short film, from cinematography to editing, color, visual effects, composing a soundtrack, whatever, most jobs are almost exactly the same on short films as they are on feature films. Once you got the skill, the length of the film doesn't matter, whether it's three minutes or 103 minutes. But producing short films is almost nothing like producing feature films. I mean the overall responsibilities are in the same neck of the woods. You're gonna start and finish the film and market it and get money, and so forth, but it's a completely different story with features. And why is it so different? Money. (laughing) Because of the money or the potential of the money involved, it changes…
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